My question more is WHY do they send spam over and over. If they are out to get customers, they KNOW after one attempt they have struck out. So why send over and over, only antagonizing the recipient to where they would never buy from them ever!
Plus these company's get paid for landing a email in your in box. They don't really care if you read it as long as you have received it, they are paid.
@@cmh2111 but that doesn’t make sense !!! There are obviously some idiots out there who click and buy -- THIS is why they keep doing it. They get most ppl don’t buy but some do. I’m livid at our government for allowing this. LIVID !!! This is MY SOACE !!! They need to do something about this. I’ve had it !
I also think it has to do with the personal emails used on online Social Media. After I opened a 2nd Instagram /Facebook account, I started getting more spams.
Thank you so much Leo I was smart enough not to open up my scam emails but I was dumb enough to try to block them all so thanks to you and your advice I simply just send them all to my spam and once a week I just delete the whole spam folder. So thank you so much from one of your lifetime subscriber.
I saw another video where they said Marking as Spam is bad because it verifies that your email is active and that gets sent back to the spammer so they can sell your email off. Seems like there is no great solution. I wish mail programs would step up their verification game to create an account or something.
Exactly why the "Spam filters" are a joke! They really arent trying to fix the problem 😆 Select all spam emails and report as Phishing! Thats the only way they will do something about the spammer.
It's the first time I get to understand why blocking email senders doesn't work and you providing THE answer. Thank you. My Yahoo Mail asks for an update, I clicked thinking it had been long overdue. The update turns out to be an UPgrade that includes removing ads, Decluttering inbox with domain blocking - would that mean decluttering unwanted email senders? Yahoo knows what they are doing, right? All for £4.99 per month. It's like the viruses in our home and office computers; there weren't any when they first started their commercialisation but suddenly our computers got infested and we had to buy anti-viruses, 'better' computers, etc.
This was a tremendous help Mr. Leo. It hit on every single one of my problems. Thank you so much. And I love the way you don't spend 15 min. setting up what you're going to discuss. You get right to it. Great job. Kudo!
Would like to block emails based on the number of characters in their randomly created address. The character string is considerably longer than legitimate emails.
Exactly why the "Spam filters" are a joke! They really arent trying to fix the problem 😆 Select all spam emails and report as Phishing! Thats the only way they will do something about the spammer.
Thank you - this is the only video that I've found on the net that ever explained this issue to me. Now I understand - getting all the garbage emails to land in my spam folder is the best that you can ever do.
iPhone 7 no computer no spam option-I get lottery and casino spam all the time to my inbox. All I can do is highlight name-block contact-done. In my preferences settings for this I can do either Leave In Inbox or Move To Trash. I have the latter check marked but still going to inbox with a top message saying-THIS EMAIL was sent by a blocked sender! What’s the point of my settings preference if it doesn’t do what it’s supposed to?
Since you’re correct about all this, Leo. I created a rule to filter and move to spam one annoying email subject line that constantly repeats. Ha! Got ‘em!
Yes that works keyword filters = SPAM. Also, select all spam emails and report as Phishing! Thats the only way they will do something about the spammer.
What to do if the spammers sending emails to the inbox that says you (me) sent it as the sender? I have been having this issue for a couple months. And I keep spamming them but continue to get them.
Leo, my email 'trash' (not inbox or spam box) is inundated with senders I then mark AS 'spam/unsubscribe' and they then show in my spam box..I then flush the entire (say 14 marked 'spam') out, and box is empty..But next day same spammers are back !! Why, if I sent them back to them as 'unsubscribe' do they STILL reappear next day ??!! I mean, I've TOLD them I'm NOT INTERESTED in their product/offer/alert/"you've won a"/etc.etc. So, WHY do they keep bothering me over and over when they're not going to get me to buy into whatever it is they're selling ??
DO NOT UNSUBSCRIBE FROM SPAM. It only gets you more spam. Here's why: askleo.com/how_do_i_stop_all_this_spam/ - if spam is showing up in your spam folder, that's the system working as it should. I'm not sure why you're bothering to look in the trash, either. Focus on your inbox, and when you find spam there mark it as spam and move on.
What if it says Error can not perform that action when you try to block ? I have never had this happen before when i blocked and does it matter as i should probably mark them all as spam anyways?
@@askleonotenboom yes I was getting so much spam. Finally it got it to be quiet for sometime here. I found out about the set rule feature since many of the emails were repeating many times over then i noticed my own email was sending me the spam so i reported one of them as phishing and it may have sent all the ones that came from my email into the junk email correctly because it has been quiet when i usually get spam emails at this point.
Hi Leo, I'm a 70 year old at her wit's end. Suddenly, a few weeks ago, I started getting about 300 hundred spam emails daily AND my good emails are going in spam too. I have to constantly sort through all the spam to find what should be in my inbox. I've tried blocking, unsubscribing and checking my filters, but the problem persists. I use Outlook Hotmail on an old iMac that I'm going to be replacing soon. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I dread the thought of having to change my email address. Thank you.
DO NOT UNSUIBCRIBE FROM SPAM. Spammers don't honor that, and actually start sending you more spam as a result if you do. Unfortunately Microsoft's spam filter is ... less then ideal (to put it politely). Right now if you need to continue to use that account, marking spam in your inbox as spam, and marking legit email ("ham") in your spam folder as legit is the only recourse we have.
Hotmail has been Hot Trash forever! 😅Bail out! Also keyword filter subject lines to send in SPAM folder. Also, select all spam emails and report as Phishing! Thats the only way they will do something about the spammer.
You explain very clearly, Anyway I am trying to set a rule to block emails that have similar marks in all of these emails for example: But the rule fails to block anyway, is there a reason for it? Is it possible to set a rule that will block permanent signs that appear in all these emails?
Hello Leo, I have a question that I hope you have the answer to. When I send emails to spam now, I get the message " spam filter has reached 500 maximum " . Where do I find this filter, and how do I clear it? I constantly empy my spam folder but this doesn't resolve the spam filter capacity message. I use aol.
@@deemogul2105 I don't have access to an AOL account to test, but my GUESS is that the number of email addresses you can block is limited to 500, and that marking as spam automatically tries to block as well. Unfortunately I don't know how to change that behavior in AOL.
@Ask Leo! - Tech confidence & solutions Yes, and I have searched and searched, and can't find anything. Called their support , and they charge a fee to even tell you how to do it . Ridiculous!🥺
When I receive emails from legitimate addresses, to me, the “To” line, has my name and another name that should not be there. When I click the name to see the email address there is no email address. How can I fix this for legitimate emails to me?
Spam email does this all the time. Spammers can fake whatever they want in the To: line. For legitimate email it's not something YOU fic, it's something at the sender's end, typically a bad address book or contact entry for you.
Can I stop receiving emails from a specific sender permanently? I don't want to receive that anymore i don't want that to go to spam folder i just want to stop receiving it somehow, is there any way for me to make this work out ?
No. The only thing that works with any reliability is, if your email program or interface supports it, is to set up a rule or filter that automatically moves email from a specific sender to the trash on arrival. Beware, though, it has the same limitations as blocking, and may not work consistently, especially if it's spam.
I understand keep changing email address can get around the block. However does outlook, in my case, can be fooled by simply hiding the real email address?
So the better question is WHY DO EMAIL PROVIDERS ALLOW SPOOFING when its DECEPTIVE and ALLOWS SPAM?! 🤔 SPAM could be greatly REDUCED or STOPPED if the email sender service didnt allow spoofing the address and/or the receiver email provider verified the spoofed address matched the sending address (because they have both addresses), if NO MATCH = AUTO-DELETE. That would force all email senders/spammers to reveal the REAL address and the Spam Blocking filters on email would actually work on spammers. SPOOFING would be pointless. End of Spam. In the meantime, everyone needs to report spam email as PHISHING, not just block. A higher level security. I think they take the spam more seriously as these type of spammers are the worst, disguised as legit companies to steal your CC#$$$$!
Hotmail has been Hot Trash forever! 😅Bail out! Also keyword filter subject lines to send in SPAM folder. Also, select all spam emails and report as Phishing! Thats the only way they will do something about the spammer.
I don't really have the time BUT this was a helpful video and made great sense....however you didn't tell us how to create a spam folder......or....goodness....what was the other. I use thunderbird and keep getting 'spam' from 'amazon' regarding updating my creditcard so they can charge me for prime.....which I stoppped in March....they told me this is NOT from them....
This video is misleading and is not true. Blocking spam addresses works and has helped me manage my spam folder---which was getting out of control from spam. Sure, hackers use the From Spoof, but they have a limited number of addresses (and patience) they can spam you from. I had to hang in there for a while with several to finally lose some of these spam bozos but eventually I exhausted them and I dont get spam from them anymore. It became sort of a sweep the stoop philosophy. The first thing I did when going into my email was check the day's spam and block the BS. This way, it was manageable. One thing about using blocked sender I am wondering about is does it compound your data usage and cause you to get warning messages??? Because I have that problem and thats why I am researching block sender. And so I ask...... is the real futile thing here not blocking senders, but blocking so many senders that you get storage warnings! Anyone know?
I just switch to pixel 6pro from Samsung, and now I'm using the Gmail app to read all my emails but I can't find the spam folder in this app. Can anyone help
Tap on the "hamburger menu" in the upper left (the three lines that kinda look like a hamburger). It'll either be listed there, or there'll be a "more" item you can tap on for the full list of folders/labels.
@@weps1981 I assume you;re using this to access a gmail.com account, yes? If it's another nonGoogle account, then the folders would/should match whatever you find in that email service's online web interface.
That differs depending on what email program or interface you use, so I can't list them all. Try right clicking on the message and look for a corresponding option in the popup menu.
Fails because GMAIL DOES NOT HAVE A RETURN TO SENDER OPTION. THEREFORE FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE (or theirs), A SCHIZOPHRENIC PERSON WILL BE SENDING ME EMAILS ABOUT THEIR LIFE. Because…. There is no return to sender option.
@@askleonotenboom unfortunately I am stuck in an issue with my hotmail where I am now getting about 1 spam email every minute. Marking spam to each message is not practical and would do nothing to prevent the next message. At this point I am just going to get a new email address with Google.
@@kashmoney7421 Yup. That's a reasonable, if painful, solution. In my experience a) outlook.com's spam filter is really REALLY hit-or-miss, and b) Gmail's is the best I've enountered in free services. I use Gmail.
Blocking is futile.
From a subbie, very good advice, Jerzy uk 🤩
Since I started marking "SPAM" as "SPAM", I've been getting MORE SPAM!
same!!! i hate them
The more I unsubscribe I feel like I subscribe even more.
My question more is WHY do they send spam over and over. If they are out to get customers, they KNOW after one attempt they have struck out. So why send over and over, only antagonizing the recipient to where they would never buy from them ever!
It's more work for them to track who's not responding. It's simpler, cheaper, and easier for them to just keep blasting to everyone all the time.
Plus these company's get paid for landing a email in your in box. They don't really care if you read it as long as you have received it, they are paid.
@@cmh2111 but that doesn’t make sense !!! There are obviously some idiots out there who click and buy -- THIS is why they keep doing it. They get most ppl don’t buy but some do. I’m livid at our government for allowing this. LIVID !!! This is MY SOACE !!! They need to do something about this. I’ve had it !
I also think it has to do with the personal emails used on online Social Media. After I opened a 2nd Instagram /Facebook account, I started getting more spams.
@@cmh2111 No wrong. They get paid on CTR click thru rate and purchases. The affiliate companies arent that dumb😆
Thank you so much Leo I was smart enough not to open up my scam emails but I was dumb enough to try to block them all so thanks to you and your advice I simply just send them all to my spam and once a week I just delete the whole spam folder. So thank you so much from one of your lifetime subscriber.
Thank you so much!! I’m just blocking & blocking then I’d be furious when I see those same blocked emails coming back through.
I saw another video where they said Marking as Spam is bad because it verifies that your email is active and that gets sent back to the spammer so they can sell your email off. Seems like there is no great solution. I wish mail programs would step up their verification game to create an account or something.
Exactly why the "Spam filters" are a joke! They really arent trying to fix the problem 😆 Select all spam emails and report as Phishing! Thats the only way they will do something about the spammer.
It's the first time I get to understand why blocking email senders doesn't work and you providing THE answer. Thank you.
My Yahoo Mail asks for an update, I clicked thinking it had been long overdue. The update turns out to be an UPgrade that includes removing ads, Decluttering inbox with domain blocking - would that mean decluttering unwanted email senders? Yahoo knows what they are doing, right? All for £4.99 per month. It's like the viruses in our home and office computers; there weren't any when they first started their commercialisation but suddenly our computers got infested and we had to buy anti-viruses, 'better' computers, etc.
This was a tremendous help Mr. Leo. It hit on every single one of my problems. Thank you so much. And I love the way you don't spend 15 min. setting up what you're going to discuss. You get right to it. Great job. Kudo!
Would like to block emails based on the number of characters in their randomly created address. The character string is considerably longer than legitimate emails.
When you have 5k spam mails and need that one mail which landed in spam by mistake....
Exactly why the "Spam filters" are a joke! They really arent trying to fix the problem 😆 Select all spam emails and report as Phishing! Thats the only way they will do something about the spammer.
Thank you - this is the only video that I've found on the net that ever explained this issue to me. Now I understand - getting all the garbage emails to land in my spam folder is the best that you can ever do.
is there a way to do a bounce back to send the sender a error message in yahoo mail
so i get like 10+ spam emails coming into my inbox and i move it to junk on my iphone, but keep getting it everyday and wont stop what can i do:(
Make sure you're MARKING them as spam. That's the only thing you can do.
iPhone 7 no computer no spam option-I get lottery and casino spam all the time to my inbox.
All I can do is highlight name-block contact-done. In my preferences settings for this I can do either Leave In Inbox or Move To Trash. I have the latter check marked but still going to inbox with a top message saying-THIS EMAIL was sent by a blocked sender!
What’s the point of my settings preference if it doesn’t do what it’s supposed to?
Since you’re correct about all this, Leo. I created a rule to filter and move to spam one annoying email subject line that constantly repeats. Ha! Got ‘em!
Yes that works keyword filters = SPAM. Also, select all spam emails and report as Phishing! Thats the only way they will do something about the spammer.
Totally agree, I’m blocking over 1000 emails per week but just end up getting even more
Select all spam emails and report as Phishing! Thats the only way they will do something about the spammer.
What to do if the spammers sending emails to the inbox that says you (me) sent it as the sender? I have been having this issue for a couple months. And I keep spamming them but continue to get them.
Recent article/video on that: askleo.com/spam-from-myself/
Thanks. That helps. I will now just mark the messages as spam. But this is quite frustrating. There must be a better way.
Select all spam emails and report as Phishing! Thats the only way they will do something about the spammer.
Leo, my email 'trash' (not inbox or spam box) is inundated with senders I then mark AS 'spam/unsubscribe' and they then show in my spam box..I then flush the entire (say 14 marked 'spam') out, and box is empty..But next day same spammers are back !!
Why, if I sent them back to them as 'unsubscribe' do they STILL reappear next day ??!! I mean, I've TOLD them I'm NOT INTERESTED in their product/offer/alert/"you've won a"/etc.etc. So, WHY do they keep bothering me over and over when they're not going to get me to buy into whatever it is they're selling ??
DO NOT UNSUBSCRIBE FROM SPAM. It only gets you more spam. Here's why: askleo.com/how_do_i_stop_all_this_spam/ - if spam is showing up in your spam folder, that's the system working as it should. I'm not sure why you're bothering to look in the trash, either. Focus on your inbox, and when you find spam there mark it as spam and move on.
Keyword filter subject lines = SPAM. Also, select all spam emails and report as Phishing! Thats the only way they will do something about the spammer.
What if it says Error can not perform that action when you try to block ? I have never had this happen before when i blocked and does it matter as i should probably mark them all as spam anyways?
It's possible that your block list is full. (There's often a limit.) As you say, though, blocking is pointless. Mark as spam.
@@askleonotenboom yes I was getting so much spam. Finally it got it to be quiet for sometime here. I found out about the set rule feature since many of the emails were repeating many times over then i noticed my own email was sending me the spam so i reported one of them as phishing and it may have sent all the ones that came from my email into the junk email correctly because it has been quiet when i usually get spam emails at this point.
Hi Leo, I'm a 70 year old at her wit's end. Suddenly, a few weeks ago, I started getting about 300 hundred spam emails daily AND my good emails are going in spam too. I have to constantly sort through all the spam to find what should be in my inbox. I've tried blocking, unsubscribing and checking my filters, but the problem persists. I use Outlook Hotmail on an old iMac that I'm going to be replacing soon. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I dread the thought of having to change my email address. Thank you.
DO NOT UNSUIBCRIBE FROM SPAM. Spammers don't honor that, and actually start sending you more spam as a result if you do. Unfortunately Microsoft's spam filter is ... less then ideal (to put it politely). Right now if you need to continue to use that account, marking spam in your inbox as spam, and marking legit email ("ham") in your spam folder as legit is the only recourse we have.
Hotmail has been Hot Trash forever! 😅Bail out! Also keyword filter subject lines to send in SPAM folder. Also, select all spam emails and report as Phishing! Thats the only way they will do something about the spammer.
Is there a way to block all unwanted emails besides one at a time blocking
In other words how should you deal with spam? I'd start you here: askleo.com/how_do_i_stop_all_this_spam/
You explain very clearly,
Anyway I am trying to set a rule to block emails that have similar marks in all of these emails for example: But the rule fails to block anyway, is there a reason for it?
Is it possible to set a rule that will block permanent signs that appear in all these emails?
Keyword filter subject lines = SPAM. Also, select all spam emails and report as Phishing! Thats the only way they will do something about the spammer.
Hello Leo, I have a question that I hope you have the answer to. When I send emails to spam now, I get the message " spam filter has reached 500 maximum " . Where do I find this filter, and how do I clear it? I constantly empy my spam folder but this doesn't resolve the spam filter capacity message. I use aol.
I'd have to know what email program or service you're using.
@@askleonotenboom I use Aol
@@deemogul2105 I don't have access to an AOL account to test, but my GUESS is that the number of email addresses you can block is limited to 500, and that marking as spam automatically tries to block as well. Unfortunately I don't know how to change that behavior in AOL.
@Ask Leo! - Tech confidence & solutions Yes, and I have searched and searched, and can't find anything. Called their support , and they charge a fee to even tell you how to do it . Ridiculous!🥺
When I receive emails from legitimate addresses, to me, the “To” line, has my name and another name that should not be there. When I click the name to see the email address there is no email address. How can I fix this for legitimate emails to me?
Spam email does this all the time. Spammers can fake whatever they want in the To: line. For legitimate email it's not something YOU fic, it's something at the sender's end, typically a bad address book or contact entry for you.
I wish apple had an automatic function returning all spam mail back to the sender without reaching my inbox would be ideal for me.
Returning to sender is pointless. They'd just ignore it, and in most cases the true sender isn't identified in spam email at all.
Can I stop receiving emails from a specific sender permanently? I don't want to receive that anymore i don't want that to go to spam folder i just want to stop receiving it somehow, is there any way for me to make this work out ?
No. The only thing that works with any reliability is, if your email program or interface supports it, is to set up a rule or filter that automatically moves email from a specific sender to the trash on arrival. Beware, though, it has the same limitations as blocking, and may not work consistently, especially if it's spam.
What if there is no sender? How do you deal with that? It's relentless. Also, hard to set rules in mobile Outlook.
You mark as spam and move on.
I'm trying to figure out" what the end game is with spam. They never get anywhere with it.🙄
Oh, but they DO. Enough people fall for it to make it worthwhile. See: th-cam.com/video/U39F1vIkVzM/w-d-xo.html
I don’t understand why gmail and Hotmail don’t put a limit on how many emails are setup from one IP address!
I don't understand how that would help. :-)
I understand keep changing email address can get around the block. However does outlook, in my case, can be fooled by simply hiding the real email address?
Sure.
So the better question is WHY DO EMAIL PROVIDERS ALLOW SPOOFING when its DECEPTIVE and ALLOWS SPAM?! 🤔 SPAM could be greatly REDUCED or STOPPED if the email sender service didnt allow spoofing the address and/or the receiver email provider verified the spoofed address matched the sending address (because they have both addresses), if NO MATCH = AUTO-DELETE. That would force all email senders/spammers to reveal the REAL address and the Spam Blocking filters on email would actually work on spammers. SPOOFING would be pointless. End of Spam. In the meantime, everyone needs to report spam email as PHISHING, not just block. A higher level security. I think they take the spam more seriously as these type of spammers are the worst, disguised as legit companies to steal your CC#$$$$!
I think these are hackers, not spammers, who change the sender's address each time.
My outlook is not even moving stuff to spam. It just keeps dropping in inbox.
Keep marking as spam.
Are you related to Corry ten boom?
In hotmail on Windows 10 I don't even have an option to block.
Hotmail has been Hot Trash forever! 😅Bail out! Also keyword filter subject lines to send in SPAM folder. Also, select all spam emails and report as Phishing! Thats the only way they will do something about the spammer.
I don't really have the time BUT this was a helpful video and made great sense....however you didn't tell us how to create a spam folder......or....goodness....what was the other. I use thunderbird and keep getting 'spam' from 'amazon' regarding updating my creditcard so they can charge me for prime.....which I stoppped in March....they told me this is NOT from them....
Most email services come with a spam or junk folder already. Just mark the offending email as junk and move on
This video is misleading and is not true. Blocking spam addresses works and has helped me manage my spam folder---which was getting out of control from spam. Sure, hackers use the From Spoof, but they have a limited number of addresses (and patience) they can spam you from. I had to hang in there for a while with several to finally lose some of these spam bozos but eventually I exhausted them and I dont get spam from them anymore. It became sort of a sweep the stoop philosophy. The first thing I did when going into my email was check the day's spam and block the BS. This way, it was manageable. One thing about using blocked sender I am wondering about is does it compound your data usage and cause you to get warning messages??? Because I have that problem and thats why I am researching block sender. And so I ask...... is the real futile thing here not blocking senders, but blocking so many senders that you get storage warnings! Anyone know?
I just switch to pixel 6pro from Samsung, and now I'm using the Gmail app to read all my emails but I can't find the spam folder in this app. Can anyone help
Tap on the "hamburger menu" in the upper left (the three lines that kinda look like a hamburger). It'll either be listed there, or there'll be a "more" item you can tap on for the full list of folders/labels.
@@askleonotenboom I've looked all over the menu but the only folder that seems could be a spam folder is one that says unwanted
@@weps1981 I assume you;re using this to access a gmail.com account, yes? If it's another nonGoogle account, then the folders would/should match whatever you find in that email service's online web interface.
Now they add your email address to the from so that when you flag it spam it actually dlags your email address as spam
Nice explanation but how do I fix this problem?
Mentioned in the video: mark spam as spam.
You can’t fix it.
Creating a filter is a better solution than marking spam as spam.
Thank you
thank you thank you. This is the best explanation of how spam filters work that I’ve ever seen.
Actually really how theyre supposed to work, but DONT work.
Well how do you stop it?????
In a sense, you don't. As the video says, mark as spam, and move on with your life.
Marking as spam is a complete waste of time with Outlook
Is this behavior legal?
OMG! and I've been wasting my time adding rules to the spams on my Mac junk folder .....thanks!!!!
This is my only frustration with TH-cam.
he just keeps saying the same thing over and over and is he you going to tell us how to mark it as spam?
That differs depending on what email program or interface you use, so I can't list them all. Try right clicking on the message and look for a corresponding option in the popup menu.
How do they make any money doing this?
Spam works. It doesn't take many people to fall for it to make it cost effective for the spammer. askleo.com/why_is_there_so_much_spam/
I see it like receiving junk mail.
Fails because GMAIL DOES NOT HAVE A RETURN TO SENDER OPTION. THEREFORE FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE (or theirs), A SCHIZOPHRENIC PERSON WILL BE SENDING ME EMAILS ABOUT THEIR LIFE. Because…. There is no return to sender option.
Really long-winded just to get to a solution..... maybe time stamp the actual solution in the future
Great in identifying the problem but gave no solutions.
I did. Mark spam as spam and get on with your life. It's the only solution available to us.
@@askleonotenboom unfortunately I am stuck in an issue with my hotmail where I am now getting about 1 spam email every minute. Marking spam to each message is not practical and would do nothing to prevent the next message. At this point I am just going to get a new email address with Google.
@@kashmoney7421 Yup. That's a reasonable, if painful, solution. In my experience a) outlook.com's spam filter is really REALLY hit-or-miss, and b) Gmail's is the best I've enountered in free services. I use Gmail.
I just wish you would get to the point , stop dragging it out!
The problem won’t be solved because they are computer generated. The a
The best that we can do - really 😂
35th, commenting is not always futile.